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JCC residents should vote ‘no’ to restricting
Jessica Anderson campaigned on a promise to work “tirelessly to improve the lives of those living in the 71st District with thoughtful policy and common-sense solutions.” Yet early in her tenure she voted “yes” on all four proposed constitutional amendments and the bills sending them to the governor. When asked her position, she declined to give one, saying the decision should be left to voters.
Last weekend, however, she was in the district campaigning for the redistricting amendment.
She voted for HB1384, sending it to the governor. The bill bundled the constitutional change, election funding, and the exact ballot language voters will see. It asks whether the General Assembly should “temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness” before returning to the standard process after 2030.
What the ballot question omits is that HB1384 nullifies Virginia law stating that a map “shall not, when considered statewide, unduly favor or disfavor any political party.”
Virginia’s 55%(D)-45%(R) voting split is reflected in our current 6–5 congressional delegation; the proposed map would make it 10-1 — “restoring fairness” by nullifying the law requiring fairness.
She also voted “yes” on HB29 budget amendments. Item 4-14 #2h repeals the current districts and establishes new ones based on the revised map, which moves JCC’s Stonehouse District and York County into a Fairfax County-dominated district.
Anderson says she wants to improve her constituents’ lives. Her votes say otherwise. Vote “no” to redistricting.
Chuck Colegrove, James City County
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JCC doesn’t have water capacity for warehouse use
More than likely, some if not all of you are aware that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been buying warehouses around the country to convert into prisons for immigrant prisoners. I had wondered about this since the first time I heard of it: warehouses have tiny water and sewer requirements but prisons have huge water and sewer requirements, which would have very large renovation requirements of the on-site plumbing pipes.
During the TV show I just watched, it dawned on me the large increases of water and sewer usage would also have a potentially huge problem for the locality furnishing those utilities. They may not be able to provide the utility lines to serve a prison if they were designed for the tiny usage of a warehouse.
Even if the water and sewer were to be trucked in and out of a prison, the water has to come from somewhere and the sewage has to go someplace, but where?
A county has no authority over who buys a warehouse and in the case of federally owned property no authority of how the building may be used, but the provider of water and sewer services has to deal with reality of what’s possible. James City County doesn’t have water or sewer capacity to spare.
Zan L Cartwright, James City County
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